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Plutarch, Roman Questions, 108
nan Why do they not marry women who are closely akin to them? Do they wish to enlarge their relationships by marriage and to acquire many additional kinsmen by bestowing wives upon others and receiving wives from others? Or do they fear the disagreements which arise in marriages of near kin, on the ground that these tend to destroy natural rights? Or, since they observed that women by reason of their weakness need many protectors, were they not willing to take as partners in their household women closely akin to them, so that if their husbands wronged them, their kinsmen might bring them succour?
nan Why do they not marry women who are closely akin to them? Do they wish to enlarge their relationships by marriage and to acquire many additional kinsmen by bestowing wives upon others and receiving wives from others? Or do they fear the disagreements which arise in marriages of near kin, on the ground that these tend to destroy natural rights? Or, since they observe that women by reason of their weakness need many protectors, were they not willing to take as partners in their household women closely akin to them, so that if their husbands wronged them, their kinsmen might bring them succour?

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aristocracy,athenian	Brule (2003) 120
elpinice (daughter of miltiades)	Brule (2003) 120
endogamy	Brule (2003) 120
eurysacidae	Brule (2003) 120
house' (oikos),and marriage" '458.0_120.0@alcmaeonidae	Brule (2003) 120
marriage,and 'house'" '458.0_120.0@marriage,as exchange	Brule (2003) 120
marriage,remarriages	Brule (2003) 120
marriage	Brule (2003) 120
names,repetition in family	Brule (2003) 120
pericles,marriages of women in 'house'"	Brule (2003) 120
philadae	Brule (2003) 120
poor,marriage amongst	Brule (2003) 120
wealth'	Brule (2003) 120